We looked at how mentions of rock climbing spiked after particular media (a special on rock climber Alex Honnold) or events (the first ascent of the Dawn Wall in Yosemite National Park). You can read (a bit) more in the post, if you’d like.

Anyhow, he messaged me because he was interested in whether there ws a spike in activity after a recent news-worthy event - the first solo climb of El Capital by Alex Honnold (the same rock climber there was the special that seemed to earlier be associated with an increase in news coverage).

The results seems to suggest that this event was hardly covered at all. I wonder if this is due to the type of news networks being searched - affiliate, or local, networks for ABC, CBS, PBS, and so on. I wonder if perhaps it was covered more on national networks (something you can check through newsflash). Or, it could be that it just wasn’t covered!